Assessing biodiversity risks with socio-economic methods the ALARM experience
Humans play an undeniable role in the acceleration of threats to the diversity of ecosystems, species and genes. This book is a response to the urgent need of policy oriented socio-ecological research, profoundly based on empirical evidence. Socio-environmental patterns and political responses are c...
| Otros Autores: | , , , , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pensoft Publishers
2009.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31327400*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- The Socio-Economics of Biodiversity Risks: Reasons for and Methods of Analysis, and Their Application in Case Studies
- 2. Challenges of Policy-Oriented Socio-Ecological Research
- 2.1. Biodiversity Under Menace, Why Is It a Social Matter?
- 2.2. Uncertainties, Risk Assessment and the Precautionary Principle
- 2.3. Ecosystem Services and Functions and Their (E)Valuation
- 2.4. Stakeholders8217; Involvement and Participation
- 2.5. Policy Measures and Social Reactions
- 3. Methodological Approach
- 4. Structure of the Contents
- 5. References
- Hydrilla Verticillata: A Socio-Economic Analysis of the Invasion Process in Lake Izabal, Guatemala
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Description of the Case Study
- 2.1. Characteristics of the Invasive Species
- 2.2. Driving Forces and Pressures
- 2.3. State
- 2.4. Impacts of Hydrilla Verticillata in Lake Izabal
- 2.5. Responses
- 3. Methods
- 3.1. Institutional Setting
- 3.2. Management Scenarios
- 3.3. The Multicriteria Model
- 4. Modelling Results
- 5. Discussion: Contribution of This Case Study to the Discussion of the Book
- 5.1. What Do We Mean By Threats to Biodiversity?
- 5.2. Stakeholder Involvement and Participatory Methods
- 5.3. Different Forms of Knowledge and Different Types of Information
- 6. Conclusions
- 7. References
- The Arrival of Dreissena Polymorpha and Silurus Glanis in the Ebro River: Socio-Economics of Interlinked Aquatic Bioinvasions
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Invasions of Silurus Glanis and Dreissena Polymorpha in the Ebro River
- 2.1. Strangers in the Ebro River
- 2.2. The Drivers and Pressures of the Invasions
- 2.3. Impacts
- 2.4. Management of the Invasions
- 3. Bioinvasions in the Ebro and Participatory Research
- 4. Lessons Learned About the Key Topics of This Book
- 4.1. What Do We Mean By 8216;Threats to Biodiversity8217;?
- 4.2. Addressing Uncertainties
- 4.3. The Central Role of Ecosystem Services and Their Values
- 4.4. Stakeholders8217; Involvement and Participation
- 5. Additional Contributions From This Case
- 5.1. Scenarios Are Integrative Research Tools for Socio-Environmental Deliberation
- 5.2. Local Agency Matters
- 5.3. Common Enemies Facilitate Dialogues
- 6. Policy Conclusions and Recommendations
- 7. Methodological Conclusions and Recommendations
- 8. Acknowledgements
- 9. References
- 9.1. Legal Documents
- 9.2. Press
- The Use of the Deliberation Matrix for Building a System of Survey and the Foresight of Changes in Biodiversity in the 206;le-De-France Region (France)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. State of Scientific and Naturalist Knowledge About Changes in Biodiversity in the Idf Region
- 2.1. The State of Biodiversity in Idf
- 2.2. The Pressures, Impacts and Driving Forces
- 3. Methods Applied in the Field Work
- 3.1. The Stakeholders8217; Identification and Survey
- 3.2. Using the Dpsir Framework for Building a List of Indicators of Biodiversity At Regional Level
- 3.3. Participatory Scenario-Building
- 3.4. Identification of the Main Stakes for the Governance of Changes of the Idf Biodiversity
- 3.5. Deliberation Matrix: a Support Tool for Multicriteria, Multi-Stakeholder Evaluation of Cha.
